NextGenInfra: Lightmatter on Breaking the AI Interconnect Bottleneck, Steve Klinger, VP of Product

At the AI Infrastructure Summit 2025 in Santa Clara, Steve Klinger, VP Product at Lightmatter, explains why the real challenge in scaling AI is no longer compute, but the interconnect. He outlines how Lightmatter’s photonic technologies—including Passage and L-series co-packaged optics—are unlocking unprecedented bandwidth, reducing training times, and reshaping the architecture of AI data centers.